Things are moving rapidly for Winnipeg folk/ country duo Leaf Rapids, which features a familiar face- Lethbridge born Keri Latimer (McTighe) who is best known for being part of award winning folk band Nathan.
Latimer and her husband Devin are on tour with fellow Winnipegger Grant Davidson, who is touring with his new project Slow Leaves.
They come to Lethbridge, April 30 to play the Slice.
Leaf Rapids just inked a record deal with Steve Dawson’s record Label Black hen Records and head off to Europe for their first tour over their with their kids in tow.
“ We were playing Canadian Music Week in a SOCAN workshop and Steve Dawson was on stage, so we said, you’re here anyway, you might as well play with us and it was like he’d known us forever,” said Keri Latimer from Edmonton, four shows into the tour with Slow Leaves.
“ We started talking after that,” she continued.
They have just released their debut album “Lucky Stars” on the label, April 14. She noted it isn’t that much of a departure from the Nathan’s folk and country sound.
The CD features Steve Dawson playing guitar.
“It’s really exciting. There’s lots of pretty great guitar on the album,” she said.
“We’ve toured there, but we’ve never played there,” she continued.
“It’s going to be sad being without Slow Leaves though,” she said.
The Slow Leaves, Leaf Rapids show is a melding of the two different bands.
“ We’ve had a couple of sold out shows. Grant Davidson plays with us and we share a drummer (Evan Friesen for Little Miss Higgins and the Winnipeg Five and the F Holes),” she said.
They are looking forward to playing a couple of big festivals in the United Kingdom including Sound City in Liverpool and The Great Escape, another big festival in Brighton.
“ It’s a good way to get our music out there,” she said.
“ So we’re excited about that.”
In the meantime they are excited about coming home to Lethbridge with Slow Leaves. She said they might slip a few Nathan songs into their set.
“ It depends how long they want us to play. We may,” she said.
“ I’m looking forward to seeing all of my high school friends again. I was Miss Churchill,” she enthused adding it has been a few years since she played Lethbridge.
“ I think it was for the Lethbridge Folk Club,” she continued.
There is a $10 cover for the show, which begins at 8 p.m., April 30.
